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Trees bylaw a cash grab

Re: Living on tree-lined streets has health benefits, study finds, July 15

Living on tree-lined streets has health benefits, study finds, July 15

Your article quotes a city spokesman: “It costs the city $72, on average, to buy and plant a tree.” Yet property owners removing a single tree from private property are charged a “cash in lieu of replanting” fee of $583 “for the City to plant trees on the road allowance or in parks.”

Cash grabs like this are why most residents simply ignore this unreasonable bylaw.

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